Its now a month since Rwanda assumed its non permanent membership seat at the UN Security Council as a representing Africa.
Before joining the Council Rwanda said it will continue supporting the peaceful resolution of the conflict around the continent taking into consideration conflicts between M23 and DRC Government.
That time Rwanda said it will not tolerate attempts to blame it for a rebel insurgency in eastern DRC but vowed to use its two-year U.N. Security Council stint to help put an end to the conflict that has destabilized its much larger neighbour.
Friday afternoon during a meeting of the Council’s Sanctions Committee on the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda showed its doubts on the report that UN said is factual and full of accurate information about crisis in Democratic Republic of Congo.
Rwanda has asked the council to change mindset and look for a new group of experts that would come up with reliable information noting that the first one was baseless.
Rwanda had earlier mentioned that accusation of supporting M23 rebellion in DRC are fabrications made by Steve Hege who was trying to avoid the core problem in DRC.
Media reports also indicated that the Head of UN Group of Experts Steve Hege has been defending FDLR militia who fled from Rwanda in 1994 after executing a genocide that killed a million ethnic Tutsis.
Rwanda told the Committee that neither Bernard Leloup nor Marie Plamadiala and even Steve Hege, as members of the Group of Experts visited Rwanda while collecting evidences and what they only did is to use information that DRC government provided.
In 2003 Leloup wrote an opinion entitled “Time to Turn the Heat on President Kagame” where he was asking that international donors need to decide whether or not to lend their financial support to Rwanda.
It is obvious that Rwanda considers the “so called” UN Group of experts to be one-sided in their report.
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